Excuse my ignorance but what is "+2x III", some sort of intermediate lens? I tried Google but it did not help.

My best effort attached; looks a bit pathetic compared to yours.

You did well. It turned so dark I had a lot of trouble even finding it in the pumpkin phases.

That is an optical teleconverter (TC), also called an extender, that doubles the focal length of the lens it is attached to, which is not all lenses. It also doubles any faults of the lens it's attached to, so you only want to use it with better lenses. What it did for me in this instance is double my 100-400L II out to 200-800mm/ More about it here:

Thanks for all the pics everyone! Not posting mine because they didn't turn out that well, in real life it looked really red from here. Was so cool, well worth braving the 4 degree chill on the balcony for! In fact the chill, quiet and still just added to the spooky effect!

I've been enjoying the supermoon this weekend and the super blood moon was really special. So glad I saw it